cartilage
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This is because the amount of cartilage, a tough but flexible kind of connective tissue, and fluid in your joints decreases over time.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
This cartilage protects the joints and creates a smooth surface for motion.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
It also helped restore the normal structure of cartilage and the synovium, the tissue that lines the inside of joints.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
Those same mice were also able to eliminate sarcoma tumors, cancers that develop in connective tissues such as fat, muscle, nerves, blood vessels, bone, and cartilage.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
Our waitress appears, long denim skirt, thick Icelandic sweater, tiny shells dangling from cartilage piercings.
From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
First, the tiny cartilages in the human larynx -- called the arytenoids -- that change the position of our vocal folds, have changed dramatically in whales.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 21, 2024
This ancient fish had separated, independent cartilages encasing the brain, rather than the solid bone or cartilage structure of jawless and jawed fish that followed it.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2023
For ribs 8–10, the costal cartilages are attached to the cartilage of the next higher rib.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The skeletal system includes all of the bones, cartilages, and ligaments of the body.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
In the bat, as in birds, the costal cartilages are ossified.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by ?douard Cuyer
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